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...Lewis did not go to Buffalo himself. But an intimate henchman, Allan S. Haywood, C.I.O.'s national director of organization, did. From a hotel room Haywood proceeded to pull strings. There were plenty to pull. Big and lusty as it was, U.A.W. was split by factionalism. On one side were Walter Reuther and Dick Frankensteen, who were determined to purge U.A.W. of Communists and oust wavy-haired, black-browed George Addes from his job as secretary-treasurer. On the other side was saturnine Mr. Addes and some shadowy figures in dark corners...
Last week from hat-famed Leghorn came an abrupt style switch, a harsh pull-'em-down order. Snarled Telegrafo, newspaper of Count Galeazzo Ciano, breeches-wearing husband of pants-wearing (TIME, July 14) Edda Mussolini...
...Macey" - that was his factory nick name - did well at his job; they all thought a lot of him, and as one of the workers told him when he left, he might one day even have charge of a floor. But the pull of England was strong, and that of poetry was stronger. Before he left he had his photograph made (see cut) and gave one to each of his friends. He also got rid of most of his manuscripts. "These, when torn up, filled a large bucket, weighed astonishingly, and burned with a clear flame...
...Nobody is more authorized than we to tell Americans that Europe has no ambitions over America. [Three days after these words the Nazis were caught trying to pull off a Putsch in Bolivia (see p. 27).] A struggle between the two continents is impossible. . . . To say that the outcome of the war can be changed by the entrance of a third country is criminal madness. It is to start a universal war without limits, a war which may last for years and which would definitely ruin nations that have based their economic life on their legitimate trade with the nations...
This holds true, of course, in the case of the bad news that our press associations and other communications to Latin America are obliged to cover. ... I state this merely to make it clear that ... I, as a Governmental propagandist, am in no way suggesting that TIME pull its punch." But Publisher Franklin Johnston of the American Exporter took the lead in demanding that TIME'S news be expurgated for Pan-American consumption. "In general," said he, "TIME'S story on the Rockefeller offices is, no doubt, a piece or legitimate reporting for American readers, But TIME...